by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Knowing versus “Believing”
Too often, American children are “gamed.” That’s because their parents over-play fantasy: Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, and more. Far too often, these iconic fantasy characters are treated within families as virtually human and therefore “practically real.”...
by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Knowing versus “Believing”
I’m what might be called a Tabernacle Choir Mormon. There are aspects of the Mormon culture I love dearly, and others I believe to be long overdue for revision and updating, for the best good of our society. Perhaps Dustin Lance Black feels similarly. He seems to be...
by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Cultural Renewal, Knowing versus “Believing”
Reader Comment: Called To a Mystery, Or to a Vile Form of Politics? Our post, “Are LDS ‘True Believers’ more likely to fall for conspiracy theories?” was published in the Salt Lake Tribune at this link:...
by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Knowing versus “Believing”
Returning to the perspective of Political Scientist Barbara Walter, one wonders. In California’s Shasta County, is Washington Post journalist Scott Wilson describing—in actually—attempts to overthrow how the American government works at the local level? Indeed, is...
by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Knowing versus “Believing”
A prominent researcher who studies prospects of civil war, Barbara Walter, believes far-right extremists are taking over America. Adherents, Professor Walter observes, believe their world is under assault from multicultural forces that rely upon strategies including...
by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Knowing versus “Believing”
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the “alt-right” is a set of ideologies, groups, and individuals whose core beliefs center on “white identity.” Loosely defined, adherents believe their world is under assault by multicultural forces relying on...
